Re: PFTMPDIR message

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Brian Furtaw (brian++at++dingbat.clubfed.sgi.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 08:17:55 -0400

Likely you are running it on an XFS file system, Performer 1.2 did not know
about XFS file systems so it is assuming NFS file system type. To solve this
point PFTMPDIR at an EFS filesystem. I kept an EFS filesystem for just this
reason until I got everything ported over.

Brian

On Jun 11, 4:38pm, Brad Colbert wrote:
> Subject: PFTMPDIR message
>
> We have an older application that was compiled (God knows how long ago)
> with Performer 1.? . The machine that the application ran on was just
> upgraded to Irix 6.2 from what we think was 6.1.
>
> Anyways, the message we get back when we try to run the application is
> something like...
>
> PfInit cannot create semaphore arena via NFS (/usr/tmp) Change PFTMPDIR
>
> No matter what we set PFTMPDIR to we get the same message.
>
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Brad
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